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View Poll Results: How do you feel about forum awards this season?

Voters

32. You may not vote on this poll

Let’s get this thing going as soon as possible.

1753.13%

Let’s hold off until the mid-season lull, but definitely before the playoff push. All-Star Weekend?

928.13%

I am interested in continuing the PD Forum Awards, just not during the season. Let’s count 2011 as a lost year and pick it up again this summer.

PD Forum Awards?

As a result of the lockout and the resulting lack of forum activity this past off-season, the forum did not hold it's annual awards this past July. I am honored to have been given the green-light to run the PD Forum Awards this time through, and I wanted to take a quick poll of PDers to gauge interest in whether or not we should hold the awards during the season, and if so, when.

The awards that were handed out the last time were:

Most Valuable Poster
Most Humorous Poster
Best Debater (previously Most Argumentative)
International Poster of the Year
Best Non-Pacer Fan
Sunshiner of the Year
Darksider of the Year
Moderate Poster of the Year
Post More Often Award
Pacers Thread of the Year
Off-Topic Thread of the Year
Best Arm Chair Coach
Rookie of the Year
Off-Topic Most Valuable Poster

As is tradition, PD is open to suggestions for new awards and suggestions for tweaking or replacing old ones.

I am also hoping to continue the PD Hall of Fame as established by Pig Nash. The inaugural class consisted of Mourning, MagicRat, ABADays, Hicks, Able, Shade, Roaming Gnome, Kerosene, Uncle Buck, ChicagoJ and Peck.

Please you this thread as a forum to discuss and debate the prospects and merits of these awards.

*Due to their dominance, Mourning and MagicRat have been retired from consideration for the International Poster of the Year and Most Humorous Poster awards respectively.

Re: PD Forum Awards?

Let's do it, and I'd say if you have the time, might as well get it rollin' now. I want to see the showdown between Vnzla and Mackey Rose for darksider of the year. I also want to nominate Kegboy for sunshiner ASAP.

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Re: PD Forum Awards?

Don't you think the people who stuck around during the lockout deserve awards probably moreso in order to keep the traffic up?

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Re: PD Forum Awards?

You think able will be capable of reading the "Joke, just a joke hehe hoho haha" part?

"Your course, your path, is not going to be like mine," West says. "Everybody is not called to be a multimillionaire. Everybody's not called to be the president. Whatever your best work is, you do it. Do it well. … You cease your own greatness when you aspire to be someone else."

Re: PD Forum Awards?

Here's a question: what's the difference between a darksider and a troll. Do some posters regard themselves as darksiders? Or do they simply look at many of us as hopeless homers?

In the other direction, how do we distinguish between a darksider and, say, a devil's advocate. For example, in the past Croz has received a lot of grief and perhaps has been labeled an insufferable darksider, but lately I've enjoyed the different perspective in a number of his arguments and consider the "devil's advocate" label more appropriate.

Re: PD Forum Awards?

Here's a question: what's the difference between a darksider and a troll. Do some posters regard themselves as darksiders? Or do they simply look at many of us as hopeless homers?

In the other direction, how do we distinguish between a darksider and, say, a devil's advocate. For example, in the past Croz has received a lot of grief and perhaps has been labeled an insufferable darksider, but lately I've enjoyed the different perspective in a number of his arguments and consider the "devil's advocate" label more appropriate.